To know your light, I look at your shadow - I'm not saying it, but that's what the old Indian proverb says, and we'll try to spell the mystery of plastic statues depicting face or animal figures.

Marcahuasi - this is a place just 10 miles from the Pacific Ocean and also 80 km from the capital of Peru. It extends at an altitude of 80 km above sea level. It is a relatively small plateau - about 4 square km. Surrounded by steep rocks and deep gorges. If you want to visit this forgotten site, get ready for a physically exhausting three - four hour march on ancient trails.

Professional publications and tourist guides have not changed much from Marcahuasi. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1948, a small Lima journalists' expedition is being held on a stray expedition to the deserted peaks of Peruvian Andes. To capture the local traits, they used the camera. After a happy return and film recall, they noticed that the pictures can be seen in departments that are distinctly different from the surrounding landscape. Better yet, these rock monuments were seen on the negative.

Three years later, the writer Daniel Ruzo, for whom the exploration of the fascinating artifacts from the snowy peaks And, became a hobby. With an unexpected joke and a great obsession, he began to work - he even built a stone cottage on this deserted plain. It was not easy to be alone at 4 km. The escort made him only a few resistant animals and inquisitive birds as a silent witness in his effort to photograph under such luminous conditions this grandiose ancient theater of prehistoric culture. In support of my facts, I use the words of the serious English archaeologist Peter Allen, an expert on Tiahuanaco: "After visiting Marcahuasi, I have come to the firm belief that the zoomorphic human motifs, which were carved into white rocks by special technique, are located on the plateau. It is definitely not a play of nature, but a sculpture that is so weathered that it is usually only when it is illuminated by the sun at a certain angle. Statue of the cat is strangely visible only from 60 ° angle.

The most favorable spot for observation is located on a small ridge, approximately 50 yards from sculpture. At this point, the rock was also deliberately machined to create a comfortable stone seat.

Artificial rocks made by the human hand are quite obvious. Sculptures are recognizable only at certain day or night times and under equally specific lighting conditions. This fact indicates the use of extraordinary techniques and, of course, also demonstrates very specific knowledge.

Daniel Ruzo did an admirable job in very difficult conditions. He photographed the rocks every day, almost minute by minute in various lighting conditions. In the morning and evening, he focused on long shadows, but he also took pictures in the harsh midday sun and on moonlit nights. He was the first to point out that prehistoric extinct cultures used combinations of artificial sculptures of natural formations to deliberately play light and shadow.

I can hear the relevant objection: "It's just a play of lights and shadows that we can see on our territory wherever there are rock masses." But - to prove my words, I use a magical spectacle with light and shadows in the form of a crawling snake. This fascinating theater can be seen in Chichen Itza on Kukulcan's pyramid. On the stairs we see 2x annually in the spring and autumn equinox shadow of the crawling serpent. The feathered serpent is the epitome of the Mayan god Quetzalcoatl.

Or would you like to say that this is also a random spectacle with the light and shadow observed by millions of tourists from all over the world? D. Ruzo invited many scholars of various scholarship skills to himself, and some of them even succeeded in studying with him for some time this fascinating sculpture gallery.

Now hold your hats. Geologists based on erosion estimated the age of sculptures at 100 000 - 500 000 years !! American astronomer, Dr. Morris K. Jessup, has shifted the time of their formation even deeper into the past. In his opinion, the Peruvian Astronomical Society, who confirmed that the rocks were artificially treated, also leaned on their own research.

Is there a numerical reference to you in my previous words? Well - I'll like him. Here is: 500 000 - 1 000 000 let ... Ruzo, fascinated by this information, began to travel the world - Africa, Romania, Indonesia, Central America and Brazil. The world-wide, ancient civilization with the center of Marcahuasi called Masmud. Sometimes the term Masma is also used.

For example, in Romania, in 1966, with the collaboration of Anna Aslan and writer Dory Teodericia, she made a film about sculptures in Marcahuasi - the lion, the sphinx, etc. in the most difficult conditions. She also discovered a number of strongly eroded statues and determined their artificial origin. The film received international recognition and received two awards in Germany (NSR).

He also learned from the Peruvian Indians about the long underground corridors in the mountains near Marcahuasi. Access to them is difficult to reach - for Indians there is taboo. They never entered them; as always, exceptions were found. In the Andes, it was said that either the daredevil had disappeared forever, or came crazy with the loss of contiguous speech.

In the Indian, the sculpture gallery in Marcahuasi is said to be the overground part of the gigantic underground corridor that stretches under the Andes. They built a civilization whose protagonists were able to act on the stone so as to soften to the point that it could be cut!

What this silent gallery of the remains of the ancient Masmud civilization tells us. Undoubtedly, they are difficult to classify in time. They are machined with a very perfect and completely incomprehensible technique. They tell of a past that is not like ours. They speak to us in a language we will probably never decipher. We stare in fascination at the statues that refuse to reveal their hidden secrets.

Even the most imaginative fantasy can not see the depths of the past. An unknown race may have been struggling, perhaps not, to build this magical portfolio to interpret the testimonies of the time past by using stone artifacts.

Perhaps they belonged to the mythical prehistoric empire, whose territory spans the Easter Island, over Tiahuanaco to the northern plateaus.
Fools, madness - you will say many. No no…

Geofyzik, dr. Amos Nur, Professor of Stanford University, California. Researcher Zwi Ben I propose from the Weismen Institute in Tel Aviv - Israel. Those are the experts who support my claim that there was a huge continent in the Pacific that they called Pacifica.

It is hard to find out, to our great detriment, whether their religion required cruel sacrifices, such as the Mayans, or was peaceful and friendly. We probably do not know anything about their language, singing, dances, culture, and customs. We probably will not find out what happened to them. How their civilization vanished or fled from disaster. Perhaps they had been on the stage of history for a short while ... Around the bizarre monuments and silent peaks And like the fierce wind blowing from the ocean, as he once did, and he himself does not want us to dig up the mysteries hidden in the rains of time.